Mental Asylum Hellingly - Hellingly, East Sussex

Hellingly Asylum, Sussex ~ There is something utterly creepy and sad about seeing a child's wheelchair in the decaying mental hospital. According to county asylum records, Hellingly Asylum had a special building just for "mentally defective" children. Of course, this was back in a time when people were locked away in isolation, people with mental illness or an illness in which the family did not want to deal.

Abandoned Mental Asylum Hellingly, RIP, 33 Creepy Photo Tribute

Hellingly Hospital was designed by asylum architect George Thomas Hine and was one of the most advanced asylum designs ever constructed. Hellingly Asylum opened its doors in 1903 and then closed them permanently in 1994. bet it was a scary place to live

What is it about abandoned asylums, eh? weburbanist.com is a good place to look...

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